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Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:08 PM
TD 03B Lands in Eastern Arabia
--South West Asia:

The center of Tropical Depression 03B came ashore over eastern Yemen on Thursday. The landing happened in the region of Hadramawt near the town of Al Mukalla. This landfall has been accompanied by the inflow of deep tropical moisture triggering desert cloudbursts in an area the normally sees very little rain (1-2 inches/25-50 mm on average). I can only guess, given the lack of weather observation data, that spot cloudbursts have poured 2-4 inches/5-10 cm of wadi-filling rain.

Moisture leftover from TD 03B will waft northward and inland over southern and central Arabia triggering showers and spot cloudbursts for another one to two days. Much further north, this moisture will meet the eastern limb of a trough in the Westerlies. The outcome will be early showers and thunderstorms over much of Iraq and southwestern Iran on Saturday and Sunday.